Gardening is one of those hobbies where people love to share what they have learned. Friends of ours recently bought an orchid at a local gardening fair. As you know, I love orchids but our association with them is very much a hit and miss affair. Neither Mick nor I really know all that much about growing them. We just know we like them. Friends told us that the orchid experts claim that if you cut the spike of flowers off while they are still flowering and put them in a vase that the flower blooms will be better on … Continue reading →

I finally plucked up courage the other week to do as suggested by the orchid experts. I cut the flower spikes off my orchids and put them in a vase. Weeks later, they are still happily flowering. Another lot of plants that have been flowering are petunias, in fact they have flowered all through winter and are still going. These petunias are self seeded petunias from the array we had last summer. They came up in the pots and garden of their own accord. Unfortunately they got dug out of the garden thinking they were weeds, but because of a … Continue reading →